This cake looks like sushi. I looked up sushi cakes online, and they had a bunch of pictures of hardcore cakes made with colored glazed sugar (i think its called) its the kind of frosting that dries but looks totally smooth. While these look awesome, they must be difficult to make. So here is an easy suggestion to get the same result.
You need:
oreo cookies
chocolate and vanilla icing
fruits!
cake mix
eggs
1/3 oil
1 1/4 water or milk
Make your cake mix and pour it into a round pan. Use the eggs, cake mix, oil and water and mix it up til the batter has no lumps. VERY IMPORTANT: oil the pan with olive oil before you pour the cake mix in so you can remove the cake easily after it is cooked. Cook the cake according to the cake instructions which is approx. 25 minutes and at 350.
While you are letting the cake bake, grab you oreo cookies.
This is a tray of oreo cookies:
Bam. Take each cookie and using a sharp knife carefully separate the squishy center from the back parts. Consume the center and save the black part.
Once your cake has finished baking you will know by sticking a knife in it. If the knife comes out without any batter it is complete. It will also smell nice. Lifting the cake out of the pan in the tricky part. The olive oil will separate the batter from the side of the pan. You will see a clear space between the edges of the cake and the pan. Let the cake cool a bit. Going around the whole circumference of the cake, lift up the edges a little bit using your fingers. You will lightly feel the edges of the bottom of the cake separate from the pan. This will loosen it up so it comes out of the pan in one piece. One you have worked up the courage, lift the cake out using your hands and place it on a plate.
Take a bowl and place it on the top of your cake. Using a sharp wet butter knife, cut around the edge of the bowl so that you make a circle.
Take the butter knife and go around the hole a second time. Once you are sure it is too the bottom, use a knife and a spoon to lift out the little hole you have made. This makes it a ’sushi’ cake, because your fillings go right to the bottom. This part can be tricky, but we used SUPER MOIST batter which is usually more fragile and it was just fine. I found that wedging the spoon on one side and a knife on the other made the middle circle pop out not too horrificly.
Refine the middle circle with a butter knife once again and make it even, then take out the crumbs. What do you do with the middle part? Consume it. QUICKLY!
Frost it! Do the top first. Now, the top of sushi is white, but there are many differnt ways you can make the top. For example, you can frost it with vanilla frosting like we did, and then sprinkle it with coconut shavings. Not a fan of coconuts? That cool – you can also coat it with white chipits. They are white chocolate chips you can get a bag of in the baking aisle. It didn’t look white enough with just vanilla frosting, so i put the frosting and then coated it with powdered sugar. I used a knife to smooth out the powdered sugar so it would cover the whole top. This does make the cake dry – so it is essential that you use ALOT of fruit for the middle. Also, frost or whatever the top of the cake first. The sides are easy, but if you do them first it gets messy. To make the oreos stick on the border of the cake, put a dollop of chocolate icing on them and stick them to the side. This looks pretty badass. We debated crumbling the oreos but then decided against it. This way it looks smoother , like the seaweed part of sushi, but isn’t difficult to make.
Deal. Now fill the middle with fruit. I filled it in layers haphazardly using strawberries, kiwis, and blueberries. The top is the only part you want to make look neat, so it resembles the top of sushi. You can do this by cutting slices of the fruit into shapes and lining them up, I made kiwi squares and strawberry circles, then a side of blueberry.
Other things you can use are cherries to look like the fish eggs some restaurants use as garnish for sushi. Or you can get green melon and cut it into sticks so it resembles the cucumber in sushi.
BAM! There’s more stuff you can do., If you’ve got time and want to make multiple sushis, you can buy smaller pans and just pour the batter into the separate ones. You can pile these on top of one another and make them stick with frosting too!
Happy Birthday Jenn!!!!!!!!!
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